Combination-bed



UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

CHARLES BIGEON, CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COMBINATION-BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 412,232, dated October 8, 1889.

Application filed May 21, 1888. Serial No. 274,521. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, CHARLES BIGEON, a citizen of the United States, residing at'Gincinna-ti, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination-Beds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combination of bedstead and closet or casing, in which the bed may be stored when out of immediate use-as, for example, during the day, when the bed is disengaged. In such constructions heretofore used the bed and its casing (the latter being usually in the form of a wardrobe or book-case, doc.) are made parts of one structure. The disadvantage of this construe tion is that, the casing being permanently attached to the wall of the room, the bed must be used in such position in the room as suits the location of the casing. It is obviously very frequently the case that the bed is more conveniently useful in some other position than that occupied by the casing attached to the wall.

It is the object of my invention to accommodat-e these conditions; and to this end it consists in combining the bed and casing in such manner that the casing may be located wherever convenient, and the bed, being separable therefrom, may be moved to any other position in the room for use.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 exhibits the casing and the bed stored therein. Fig. 2 exhibits a vertical cross-section of the casing and of the bed, the latter being upon the floor in position about to be introduced into the casing; Fig. 3, a similar cross-section showing the bed turned up and folded within the casing; and Fig. 4, a side elevation of the bed, showing its fold- 7 ing legs and head-board.

The bed B consists of the ordinary supporting-frame, having a woven-wire web or other suitable support for the mattress m, and having its legs d attached to the bed-frame by rule-joint hinges, and its head-board e attached in the same manner. The bed is entirely independent of the casing, and is provided with casters, by which it may be moved to any part of the room or to other rooms, as desired.

The casing A is made somewhat longer than the bed, in order to admit the latter freely, somewhat higher than the width of the bed, and of sufficient depth in front of the wall to admit the bed B and its mattress on behind the screen-curtains e. For the purpose of placing the bed within the casing the bed is provided, preferably upon the under side of the franc c, with hook-shaped irons or engaging-1n gs f, one near each end of thebed-frame. These hook-shaped lugs present their open slots toward the case outside the bedstead. At a corresponding height from the floor, upon the inner faces of each of the side boards I) of the casing, are arranged pintles 9, projecting toward each other in a common horizontal line. These pintles project sufficiently to engage in the open slots of the lugs f when the bedstead is shoved in upon them and become the pivots upon which the bed may be turned up into a vertical position within the casing.

Suitable straps h, attached by buttons or otherwise to the sides of the bed and crossing over the mattress m, retain the latterin position when the bed is turned up. It will be observed by reference to Figs. 2 and 3 that the vertical line of the center of gravity of the bed when turned up vertically upon its pintles falls wholly inside of the axis of the pivotal bearings, and consequently the bed retains its proper vertical position against the wall within the casing; but for further security a hook i may be provided as a precaution against accident.

It will be observed that, since the sockets and pintles are in line practically with the under side of the bed-frame, a space beneath the bed is left in the casing when the same is turned up within the casing. This space may be utilized for the storage of bed-clothes, &c.

The casing may be made sufficiently high to stand against a Wall, and provided with pintles projecting horizontally inward from the sides of the casing, and a bed provided with folding legs and with open sockets adapted to engage the pintles, whereby, when the bed is shoved into position, the sockets engage upon the pintles and enable the bed to be turned and supported thereon virtually in the casing, with the legs folded against the bed, and upon turning the bed down into a horizontal position the legs may be dropped down to wholly support the bed upon the floor detached from the casing, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES BIGEON.

Witnesses:

L. M. HOSEA, L. E. HOSEA. 

